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Fact-Texas is Big!
But here's one for you! In Architectural and Engineering Drafting supplies they seem to be Small! I even had a fellow in Austin (Yes, the Capitol) ask me after I inquired,"What the H&*^ are Letraset or Chartpak products anyway?" After explaining it to him, he asked another employee and neither, had ever heard or them.
I find it hard to believe that My old career has stopped using the products. I used many of those products setting up and finishing a top sheet for a design set of drawings on Mylar. That ensures a perfect burnout on the print machine giving a nice Black and White clean presentation sheet! they used to have trees, silhouettes, cars, etc. as well as border tapes to jazz up a set of plans(Presentation or First sheet ) of plans for Mr. and Mrs, Homeowner's new Custom designed Home! And of course scads of lettering and symbols for Engineers( For practicing, Civil, Electrical or Hydraulic , Maritime, Engineering proffessionals etc.)
Unfortunately, they've gone the way of the slide-rule.
Gary
Just the other day the kids in the drafting room outside my office were talking.
"What's this thing?"
"I don't know. Some kind of a stencil?"
"Go ask Bill, he'll know"
Modeling is an excuse to buy books.
And this...
The brand names may be gone but the products are alaive and well and living in any store that sells scrapbooking supplies. Hobby Lobby, Micheals, even Walmart ad the Dollar Store have a nice selection of both.
GMorrisonJust the other day the kids in the drafting room outside my office were talking. "What's this thing?" "I don't know. Some kind of a stencil?" "Go ask Bill, he'll know"
Ahhh...the old eraser shield. Nostalgic...but I definitely don't miss them when I'm doing the engineering portion of an avionics installation.
When we do placards on instrument panels now, we still have screen printing available to us for things we want to put on as an afterthought, but I really like being able to have all of that UV printed on top of the powder coat just by putting the placards on the AutoCad drawing.
"You can have my illegal fireworks when you pry them from my cold, dead fingers...which are...over there somewhere."
I use stencils a lot. Much easier to just use a pen or pencil to draw a circle, diamond or other regular figure on a sheet of styrene than print out a paper pattern and glue it to a the sheet.
When I worked in media I used Letraset all the time doing paste-ups; also used 'em for artwork for IPMS/hobby magazine submissions.
Of the full suite of drafting supplies I had coming out of high school...and those 'pro' extras I inherited from my engineer father...the pencil-pointer and the set of various circle templates and French curves are the ones I still use almost constantly, the latter mainly for cutting paint masks or decal stock for custom markings.
Great memories!
Greg
George Lewis:
GMorrison Just the other day the kids in the drafting room outside my office were talking. "What's this thing?" "I don't know. Some kind of a stencil?" "Go ask Bill, he'll know"
I laughed out loud when I saw the bottom of the photo!!
Drop a K&E Lettering set on the PFY's (Pimpilly-faced youth) desk and whatch their skulls explode!!
I don't do any drafting anymore, but still have my set, as well as my railroad pens. The RR pens were handy drawing surface contours.
G. Beaird,
Pearland, Texas
Hi Bill!
Oh, Good heavens. I still have my electric eraser and many shields. I use the shields to block out Nameplates or Boards for ships! I had a fellow at one of the R.V. parks where my 2nd wifey and I stayed want to know what kind of "Dremel" tool that was. I was working on plans for a refit of a fishing boat to a "Live-Aboard Boat" Or to some, a "Poor Man's yacht".
I still have someplace, drawings I did of modifications to an Anchor Handling Vessel to be an Oil Spill Clean-up Command Vessel. I got paid but the company went bust just after I got paid, and didn't want them. They sold off everything "as is where is!" The one thing I still use a lot is my full set of both "Adjustable Curves" and My "Ships Curves!". I wonder how many of these Young un's would know what "Adjustable Curves" even are!
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